Orlando furioso
Antonio Vivaldi
Malibran Theatre
Orlando furioso RV 819 is a three-act opera surviving in manuscript in Antonio Vivaldi‘s personal library, only partly related to his better known Orlando furioso (RV 728) of 1727. It is a recomposition of an Orlando furioso written by Giovanni Alberto Ristori which had been very successfully staged by Vivaldi and his father’s impresa in 1713, and whose music survives in a few fragments retained in the score of RV 819. Therefore, Vivaldi’s first cataloguer Peter Ryom did not assign the opera a RV number, but catalogued it as RV Anh. 84. The libretto was by Grazio Braccioli.
La Fenice production
with Festival della Valle d’Itria
The performance lasts about 3 hours including one interval
LOCANDINA
Orlando Sonia Prina
Angelica Michela Antenucci
Alcina
Lucia Cirillo
Vivica Genaux (23/9)
Astolfo Luca Tittoto
Bradamante Loriana Castellano
Ruggiero Kangmin Justin Kim
Medoro Laura Polverelli
La Fenice Orchestra & Choir
Conductor Diego Fasolis
Chorus Master Alfonso Caiani
Director Fabio Ceresa
Sets Massimo Checchetto
Costumes Giuseppe Palella
Light designer Fabio Barettin
